Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the capacity in gigawatts is of (a) onshore wind generation connected to the National Transmission Grid and (b) consented onshore wind under construction.

Latest figures from September 2020 indicate that, across the UK, we currently have 14.1GW of onshore wind generation installed across both transmission and distribution networks[1], and 0.6GW consented and under construction.[2]

[1] BEIS Energy Trends (September 2020)

[2] Renewable Energy Planning Database (September 2020)